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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

Boxes: The boxes of identification tutorials and information nuggets have been carried over to the new volumes, many new and old topics rewritten–Identification of Gulls (East and West), Comparing Empidonax and Other Flycatchers (East), Hummingbird Displays (West), Woodpecker Drumming, are just a few of the topics.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Families do not hike up mountains to sit all day on pointy rocks to watch woodpeckers. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. It’s hawks they pant and wait to see. And, a shorebird is not the image leading off the introduction to The Colbert Report.